In response to claims from Microsoft that Google Apps for Government is not certified under FISMA, the General Services Administration has issued a statement verifying that Apps for Government is, in fact, FISMA-certified.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 14, 2011
Microsoft has accused Google of misleading users regarding government certification for its Apps for Government products, released in July 2010.
- By Kevin McCaney
- April 12, 2011
With the launch of the Microsoft Partner Network in November, Microsoft forced 400,000 partners to decide how they'll fit their businesses into the new structure. In our annual survey, readers reported how they're planning to adapt.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 12, 2011
Microsoft intends to deliver its entire Dynamics portfolio as a cloud-based service, the company said on Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 11, 2011
The cloud got significantly more crowded this week, with Microsoft, IBM and Dell each announcing major initiatives.
- By Gladys Rama
- April 08, 2011
Dell Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in cloud computing over its next fiscal year, the company announced on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
A new $12 million partnership between Microsoft and Toyota Motor Co. will allow automobile owners to access car telematics technologies via the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2011
IBM accelerated its cloud push on Thursday, when it announced the launch of SmartCloud, a product designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, a new private cloud solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
There was a distinct cloud slant at some of the major IT players' recent partner confabs, with Cisco, IBM and VMware each rolling out new programs to help their partners transition customers to the new computing paradigm.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 07, 2011
According the latest CDW-G Unified Communications Tracking Poll, unified communications adoption has doubled in the United States over the past year, with many organizations moving their UC implementations to the cloud.
- By David Nagel
- April 06, 2011
With Windows Intune's availability, Redmond's cloud lineup for partners spans the back office, CRM, systems management and Infrastructure as a Service.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 05, 2011
Microsoft is planning some licensing changes that it says would benefit its Software Assurance (SA) customers and service provider partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. has launched its CloudSystem Partner Program, which is designed to help partners sell HP's CloudSystem portfolio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 31, 2011
Dell, Equinix and Rackspace have teamed up to launch an OpenStack demo environment on Wednesday in a bid to get customers to test cloud-based apps on the platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: With so many licensing choices available, IT pros can expect to have at least a few questions if they decide to migrate to Office 365. Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently shed some light on the ins and outs of Office 365 licensing in an online discussion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2011
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a provider of self-service, self-catalog and lifecycle management software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 29, 2011
Amazon Web Services launched its EC2 Dedicated Instances service on Monday, in response to indications from its enterprise customers that they do not want to share computing resources with other companies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 28, 2011
The beta of Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012, which Microsoft released earlier this week as part of the unveiling of the System Center 2012 line, includes the company's Server Application Virtualization tool for Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 24, 2011
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Intune on Wednesday during its Microsoft Management Summit, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2011
Citing information from Research In Motion senior executives, a Bloomberg article published on Wednesday reports that Microsoft has struck a cloud computing deal with the smartphone developer.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2011